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...Paris, concern over the expense of conducting the war was manifest in official and business circles. It is now six weeks since the conflict began; and, judging from the appropriations asked by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux (100,000,000 francs, covering a period of three months), there is no immediate prospect of defeating the Riff rebels. Meantime, the franc depreciates in value and finance reforms daily become more difficult...
...quickly dismissed. It was stated that the huge Stinnes interests (mines, railways, shipping lines, newspapers, hotels, etc.) had been recognized as top-heavy by the late Hugo Stinnes himself and that "Junior" Stinnes-who recently broke with his elder brother (TIME, June 8) because dual control of the huge concern was a flat failure-will centralize the interests as far as possible and sell a number of holdings which were considered as temporary investments. It was also pointed out that the mere fact that Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht and a number of other prominent bankers had met to lend Stinnes...
...religious house became a business organization with ramified business connections and often engaged in agricultural or industrial or even commercial enterprises, at the expense of its real tasks, in like manner the American University of today is on one side a huge business concern, with increasingly complicated administrative and financial organization, engaged in many incidental activities which are sometimes hardly to be differentiated from business activities. Its rulers are much concerned with the raising of money, and elaborate extra-mural organizations and campaigns for funds absorb much of their attention. . . . It is likely to be much easier to procure...
...Courts of Bucharest, the Baldwin Locomotive Co., U. S. concern, sued the Rumanian Government...
...become a U. S. citizen, anchored for further writing (a sequel to Race) at Westport, Conn., should remind his new countrymen of the texture of his thought. Grimly opposed to "sea stuff," particularly in the magazines of a landlubber nation, he is himself by no means all sailor. His concern is the large "ineluctable problem of human folly," his attitude that of a "benevolent marbleheart," his wit salt, his style compactly patterned, his horizon spacious and contemplative...